After six months of trying to be accommodating to the minority party -- something his predecessor didn't even fake -- all he's gotten is nothing, unless you call the usual right-wing vitriol and victimhood "something."

I do sell physical CDs off my website, but in general, I think most people have turned over to this digital age of music, where they're buying an album for ten bucks on iTunes, and the artist is seeing six or seven dollars of that, compared to the fifteen dollars they would have gotten from the sale of a physical version of it.

I have asked this question of most of the Democratic members of the House and Senate thorugh e-mail (at least to those who allow out of state/out of district e-mails) but the only response I have ever gotten is a request for donations.

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Gotten? they complain about 'gotten'? Google's got gotten goin back to 1492 's library of congress, but it really wan't 'America' as in the USA so that date is suspect. I got Gotten being used by the house of lords http://goo.gl/XuEo2

Oh man. This brings back some memories. Frindley, I got crap marks on an English paper in Australia for using "gotten," which my teacher (who later became a pretty good friend!) insisted was completely ungrammatical and did not exist as a legitimate word. She had genuinely never heard it. I was stunned, because it's very common in the United States, and I'd seen it in all kinds of (even formal) writing.

I'm so glad this really is a cultural difference and I didn't just dream the whole episode.

Australians are taught to regard this as "wrong" or "ungrammatical" or as an informal/slangy US usage. As a result relatively few realise that (a) it is acceptable and normal in the US and that (b) it is actually very old. ’Tis ironic given that the word parallels with a whole lot of other words that we do use, such as "driven" and "written", not to mention "shown".

I'm quite fond of "gotten", but to give the Antipodean response to jennarenn's question, Aussies would most likely eschew the get verb altogether (another legacy of the education system) and say: